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Subject: DS ch 33 word choice error?

Author:
Nigel

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Date Posted: 16:31:38 07/24/15 Fri

The line

I�m dreading having to go back to Toronto and having to lie and dissimilate to Bertie and Josette about what I�ve really been doing

seems to have a bad choice of word: dissimilate means 'to make dissimilar', I think a better choice would be dissemble (hide, conceal or disguise), or more likely the synonym dissimulate, which seems to refer specifically to 'one's thoughts, feelings, or character', since this is a very similar spelling (although I hadn't met that word before looking up disemble to double-check its meaning).

I'll often double-click, right click, search Google if something doesn't quite seem right, but it's rare for me to do that in Wes' work for that reason; usually with Wes it's to look up something (like getting a map of the Fort Myrers area).

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Wes
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Date Posted: 20:00:21 07/24/15 Fri

Caught me on that one!

-- Wes

>The line
>
>I�m dreading having to go back to Toronto and having
>to lie and dissimilate to Bertie and Josette about
>what I�ve really been doing
>
>seems to have a bad choice of word: dissimilate means
>'to make dissimilar', I think a better choice would be
>dissemble (hide, conceal or disguise), or more likely
>the synonym dissimulate, which seems to refer
>specifically to 'one's thoughts, feelings, or
>character', since this is a very similar spelling
>(although I hadn't met that word before looking up
>disemble to double-check its meaning).
>
>I'll often double-click, right click, search Google if
>something doesn't quite seem right, but it's rare for
>me to do that in Wes' work for that reason; usually
>with Wes it's to look up something (like getting a map
>of the Fort Myrers area).